1013: What's The Emergency?

Description

This is a live in-person training.

Many people are confused about what to do in the face of a mental health emergency. What constitutes a mental health emergency? As with any medical emergency, a mental health emergency can be life threatening. Most of the time mental health emergencies are those involving the threat of suicide or the occurrence of an actual suicide attempt. Other types of mental health emergency may involve the threat of harm to another person. In a situation where a patient is decompensating or becoming psychotic and is being guided by audio/visual hallucinations it is sometimes possible that there is a threat posed to another person. 

Objective 1: Define, describe and Write a 1013. 

Objective 2: Understand the grounds for writing a 1013 

Objective 3: Understand duty to warn vs duty to protect

Speaker's Information

Hello, I am  Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Georgia in private practice.; I have been in practice for the past 15 years. I have a MA in Community Counseling with an add on certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy. I work primarily with clients who are struggling with grief, loss, couples issues, adjustment, work stress, grief in the loss of a pet (disenfranchised grief) anxiety, some spiritual concerns